Do you like this movie: Clerks

Pretty wild how much of a novelty it was to have characters in a movie discuss nerd culture like Star Wars and comics back in 1994.

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Yes. Like the entires series.

Clerks > Clerks (ABC show) > Clerks 3 > Clerks 2

K181 posted...

Clerks (ABC show)

Very underrated!

37??

Yep. I saw it at probably the perfect time in my life too. I was about 19-20 and worked at a video store. The bit in the movie about stupid customers killed me.

SaikyoStyle posted...

37??

In a row?

....Salsa Shark

I've only seen clerks 2. I should check out the first one at some point

Huge Kevin Smith fan and can honestly say I was from very early on with this. Watched Clerks on my ship during a deployment while in the Navy in 1995. Then later on that year during the same deployment Mallrats came out and I was hooked.

I like the majority of his stuff but I will always have the strongest affinity for the Jersey trilogy of the first 3 movies. By the time Chasing Amy came out I was a fanboy and went to the theatre since we were stateside and in port when that released. It came out 1 day after my 21st birthday and that was part of my celebration. Good times.

So yes, big fan of Clerks. Still think it has some of his best dialogue conversations out of all the movies. Mallrats is probably my favorite movie because Jason Lee does such a great job with the Brodie character and I love Chasing Amy because of his job with Banky but Clerks has the best conversations with Dante and Randal.

Yeah it was fine

Not a big fan of Kevin Smith though

38.89% of CE likes Revenge of the Nerds (72 votes)

WTF? Does CE not understand RotN and it's cultural significance around the time it came out?

K181 posted...

Yes. Like the entires series.

Clerks > Clerks (ABC show) > Clerks 3 > Clerks 2

i need to give the show a full watch one of these days. i only ever watched it once, when it (briefly) aired, and i don't think they aired every episode that was actually produced, so there's ones i've never seen.

but yeah, i love all of the movies.

wasn't for me.

Nota214 posted...

WTF? Does CE not understand RotN and it's cultural significance around the time it came out?

I noticed this too a few topics ago and was similarly shocked at first. The panty raid scene and Lewis pretending to be Stan so he could go down on Betty are likely seen as problematic nowadays, as well as Lamar being stereotypically gay. But more to the point, it's probably that the nerds of CE simply (and justifiably) don't like stereotypical portrayals of nerds (similar to CE's general disdain for The Big Bang Theory).

I too appreciate it's cultural significance, but I can't deny that out of all the 'spawn of Porky's' comedies that came out in the 80's, RotN is the one I rewatched the least.

Yeah but Jay is really annoying.

Night bump

Also has a great soundtrack.

Love it.

Nota214 posted...

WTF? Does CE not understand RotN and it's cultural significance around the time it came out?

I didnt even see that poll

Never watched Clerks, but I did watxh Dogma.
Ivynn posted...

90.74% of CE likes Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (108 votes)

Fun fact, it's just Raiders of the Lost Ark.